Wednesday: IMLS GATEWAI Archives Seminar

IMLS GATEWAI Archives Seminar: Recovering Ordinary New York in the Digital Age: How Social Historians Use the Archives.

Wed, April 25
4:30 pm-6:00 pm
PMC 610

The GATEWAI Seminar is sponsored by an grant from the IMLS to support a program in archives between Pratt-SILS and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Total award, $591,000.

Panel of 3 ditinguished historians Moderated by Dr. Marilyn Pettit, VP for Collections at the Brooklyn Historical Society.

1. Professor Susan Yohn who is professor and chair of the History Department at Hofstra University, and author of A contest of faiths: missionary women and pluralism in the American Southwest (1995) and “Men That Wouldn’t Cheat Each Other.Seem to Take Delight in Cheating Women:” Court Challenges Faced by U.S. Businesswomen in the Nineteenth Century. In Women and Money.

2. Janette Rutterford, Josephine Maltby and Anne Laurence, eds. (London: Routledge), forthcoming and Professor Jocelyn Wills teaches history at Brooklyn College and is author of Boosters, hustlers, and speculators : entrepreneurial culture and the rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883.

Professors Yohn and Will are separately investigating and mapping the locations of money-making activities for men and women conducting business in 19th century Brooklyn, and presented their research at the OAH Annual Meeting in 2006.

3. Marci Reaven is Managing Director of CITY LORE and co-author of Hidden New York: A Guide to Places That Matter (2006). She is a public history consultant and a doctoral candidate in history at NYU, and is working with Profs. Yohn and Will to bring their research conclusions to the Web.